Berthe Morisot: Impressionist (Hardcover)

by Charles F. Stuckey (Author), W. P. Scott (Author)

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Morisot was a gutsy pioneer among the French impressionists. As a standard-bearer of the avant-garde, she created a scandal by helping to organize a public auction of their works, something very few artists had dared to do. Defying the advice of her parents and Manet, she remained in Paris when Prussian troops besieged the city. In her artistic technique she was no less daring. Around 1874, in pictures of tourists and yacht-filled rivers, she broke through to an abbreviated, shorthand style ahead of her contemporaries. Disregarding her own view that Monet had taken landscape painting to its farthest limits, her late oils of gardens are brilliant fireworks of color. This catalogue of a retrospective exhibition that is to tour the country stands on its own as a valuable study. What it lacks is a sense of the inner woman, a shortcoming that has bedeviled most books about her. BOMC featured dividend.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 228 pages
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press, Inc.; First edition (October 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933920032
• ISBN-13: 978-0933920033
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #196,186 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for Morisot fans, April 18, 2005

By	C. URen (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Berthe Morisot, Impressionist (Paperback)

This is the best kind of art book: it has both serious, informative text and loads of glorious color pictures. The two authors both write in a readable style and break up their essays into sections on Morisot's life and "style and technique". Morisot is treated as a respected artist throughout--there's none of that annoying "imitator-of-Manet" stuff--and the authors objectively explore the question of how much of an innovator she may have been. I've read many books on Morisot, and this is perhaps my favorite. A good companion to the "style and technique" section is a book called "Impressionists--Side by Side", which shows in more detail how Morisot's work compares with Renoir's and Cassatt's.